Top 171 Perennial Quotes & Sayings

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

India's water challenges are intractable, messy and perennial.

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

I'm huge on spring and summer gardening. I'm really proud of my perennial beds. That's a passion of mine.

Zombies are kind of a perennial.

I once termed my sense of dress as 'urban farmer' and that became a perennial source of bullying from my friends, particularly my brother.

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

People souls - perennial loners. They're loners like stray stars.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.

I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor.

The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

I grow all kinds of annuals. I have a nice perennial border in the front of the house.

Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health.

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.

I love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

There's a source, there's a perennial source from which all things come forth. We call it the Godhead, Nirvana, the Tao, enlightenment. It's big; it's bright; it's perfect, as are all of its children, as are we.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

The perennial gale of creative destruction

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

When I was drafted in Cleveland, I wanted to turn this team back into a perennial playoff contender and to win the Super Bowl.

I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.

There is no season and no reason for love. Love is not seasonal its perennial.

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.

I wish my nose was smaller and that I was a little taller. I also had this perennial pimple problem, so I felt people were just being polite when they said I was beautiful.

Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regulators and, above all, for investors because they have been prone to abuse by stock manipulators.

There are perennial stories like 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Sherlock Holmes' and those sorts of things, which have been around since almost as long as film, and 'Frankenstein' is another one. They're perennial favorites, which get remade every 20 years, and that's OK.

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.